This is 100% paid work, nobody is working for 'free'.
MIT is well known for the second form of patient troll where you look for years of very promising research done by someone else, make minimal change using government funds, and then get to lock things up for 20 years.
Worse there is now a huge incentive to find some other trivial change to get around this patent thus costing the field 100's of times more than their initial 'effort'.
MIT is well known for the second form of patient troll where you look for years of very promising research done by someone else, make minimal change using government funds, and then get to lock things up for 20 years.
Worse there is now a huge incentive to find some other trivial change to get around this patent thus costing the field 100's of times more than their initial 'effort'.